Dennis Townsend

I'm a lifelong Tacoma, Washington resident with the exception of a few adventures in Juneau, Alaska and Burns, Oregon. Like many from the Pacific NW, I am equipped with webbed feet and refuse to use an umbrella as well. I began drawing cartoons as editor of my high school newspaper, then the phone company grabbed me off the street and made me go to work for them for 42 years as a technician, supervisor and engineer (however, I did do some cartoons for the local union newsletter). I've dabbled in radio broadcasting (KMO/Tacoma - KRNN/Juneau - KZZR/Burns, OR) and thankfully I had a day job. Now retired, I work on refining my craft, capturing absurdity(there's plenty of that these days), afflicting the comfortable, bringing up national as well as state and local issues, and more seriously, defending the 1st Amendment. I wrote a bi-weekly column in the Eatonville, WA Dispatch for seven years and still freelance on my website, The Towns' End, but the pencils have gotten under my skin, so every day provides a new look at this crazy world and I try my best to express it.